I am submitting a 3D printing project, this Lex Prime model from the game Warframe. I have played it a good many hours, but a friend of mine has been using it to keep his sanity while WFH and being a new dad as of April 2021. So I'm making it as a Christmas present.

In October I made what I would consider my first "real" prop from start to finish when I made a half-scale Halo Needler for use in a friend's kid's costume. It was both incredibly rewarding and motivating to make it with the intent of giving it to someone else. It also helped it was for a 2yr old, who was going to be decidedly un-critical of my sanding skills!

So this is going to be my second full-on prop, and I want to get into the weeds a bit, pay attention to detail, really make everything smooth, remove seams, get a nice even paint job, etc. I'm really hoping it goes well enough that I have time to make some sort of mounting bracket for hanging on a wall or sitting on a desk.

I am in! I have decided I want to make a game. I haven't decided what kind of game it will be or what engine/tool I will use it. I will also keep the scope quite low, it will definitely be a very short game, but I would like to work on it for at least a couple days.

I'm am also in for Timasomo!!!

I'll be writing a short book based on an experience from 2018 that was so absurd it is hard to convey. I had a work project that took me to the Afghan/Pakistan boarder town of Zhob and things started to devolve as soon as we arrived. I've been meaning to write it up for years and my memory of it is starting to become fuzzy so now or never!

This is my first attempt at a full length story and would love any feedback tilderinos (is that what we decided on?) could provide.

I’m noncommittally in - I think I can have the bugs in my printer squashed in time for this. I am going to make a pair of gloves. I’ve had this project on the back burner for a while, and it was mostly inspired by some tanned leather I was given. I usually don’t like gloves, and find them uncomfortable - so I will be 3D scanning my hand using photogrammetry, cleaning the model up in blender, printing the model and a mirror of it, and using it as a last to construct these gloves on. I have pretty much no leather working experience, so I expect that to be the most difficult part of this project.

Edit: I'm withdrawing from Timasomo.

I'm submitting my mini corexy 3D printer. My goal is to get a benchy printed on it by the end of the month. Barring unforeseen requirements, I should now have everything I need to build it, I got all the parts for the print bed assembly last week. Frame is already together, along with the x and y linear rails, but that was the easy part. I'm going to have to design and print my own pulley and motor mounts for the corexy drive system, but that should be fairly straightforward. Hopefully.

I'm in. I'm going to be writing a novel. Currently unknown title or content, but it's probably going to be something somewhat fantasy-oriented.

I'm in. I will be making a Japanese-style gardening knife/tool with a stretch goal to create a sheath or holster for it too. There is a small risk I won't be able to find any gas for my forge because there have been shortages around here recently. If that happens I'll know quite soon and I have a backup project in mind. Still, some knifey materials have been ordered and I did a few preliminary sketches and designs earlier today.

I will be in! My main task is to post on my website for the first time in forever, with an article looking at how global warming plays into the Global Trends 2040 report that came out earlier this year. Since I haven't posted on the site since Timasomo last year, despite my personal goals to the contrary, I may be a bit rusty, so we will see how it goes.

As a secondary thing, I am going to try out some new things with soap making. I have been making what I learned to be approximately 19.5% superfat coconut oil soap, as a pandemic hobby. It works quite well for me, but it is too harsh for my SO's skin. I want to try a 30% superfat, to see if that is better for her, which is about as high as I have seen people online go with coconut oil. If I can get that out of my mold soon enough, I may also try and find a 100% olive oil recipe to try, which will probably need to cure over the holiday season before it is ready to use.

I am in again! I'll be focusing on making a lace scarf for my friend. It's partially started but I'm pathetically behind, and this is a good excuse as any to put myself on a deadline. I will need to get blocking squares and some scarf pins in order to block it, but that can come later! I will post the pattern when I get a chance in an edit.

I'm in.

I don't exactly know what I'll do (this comment will be a bit stream-of-consciousness), but it'll be working on the 4WD Toyota Tercel Big Block Build. Honestly, it's a little depressing that life gets in the way and the car is still not running a year later... The engine is all done and buttoned up, the only things it lacks are small things that I just need to bolt to it like the intake manifold, fuel setup, coolant pipes, and exhaust header. The first two can be done with the engine out of the car, the last two need to be done with it in the car. To put the engine in the car I need to mount the spacers, which I have the material for, and just last week acquired the hardware to do so.

However once the spacers are in, but before the engine can go in...

...I'll need to address the various issues that come with dropping the crossmember by 2.25"; such as braces that tie it to the chassis that will no longer fit, so I need to make new ones (that are more robust than the stock components). I might make these tubular with heim joints on the end or tubular with bushings or tubular with crushed ends or layered welded flat bar. Won't know how each option compares until I have the spacers in.
...I'll need to extend the steering shaft as I'll know exactly how much longer it needs to be, which involves cutting the stock shaft and welding in an extension. While I'm doing that I need to go ahead and unbolt the steering rack from it's mounts to measure it and see which polyurethane rack bushings I need to pick up to replace the factory rubber ones.
...I can get to work on the new suspension which lifts the car quite a bit and I need to install the massive pile of polyurethane bushings that go everywhere else on the car. The antiroll bars might need to be spaced down, or might not, as they tend to need spacers with a suspension lift, but might not with the crossmember drop.

Once the suspension is done I need to put the engine in so I can check the driveshaft angles to see how far the carrier bearing needs to be spaced downward and figure out what I'll do about the panhard bar at the rear axle, with the options there being creating a new bar or making drop shackles to keep the stock bar. Most likely the latter as a longer panhard bar has the potential to make the axle shift even more under compression/droop.

While the car is in the air getting the new suspension there will be the temptation to drop the old fuel tank, remove the old fuel lines, and install the new tank/lines/fittings. While it's in the air I might as well hit the underside with rust converter to clear up the undercarriage corrosion it picked up when it lived in Colorado and rust preventative paint on the chassis and fuel tank.

So conclusion is, there's lots to do, I don't know what I will do, but I plan on doing something.

I'm here! Gonna build my Naked60 board. Only thing I don't have are the keycaps that I ordered, but everything else should be ready to build.

I'm in. I'm going to build a relationship tracker - to show the time a couple have been together, married, other stats with a photo gallery. It's a pretty simple concept.

I'm undecided on the tech that I'll use but I'm considering NestJS.

This is going to be more of a Tildes Break Something Month, but I'd like to try and get root on the Oculus Go now that the completely unlocked version of the image and bootloader is available. I don't know the first thing about root access or romming, but I know Android, and know where to find people, so it can't be that hard.

Sidebar: Tildes Break Something Month might be good if anyone has a bad habit or a goal they want to accomplish.

Count me in! I'm using TiMaSoMo to wrap up a bunch of music that I've been working on. Hopefully this is the impetus I'm looking for!
Mostly dance-oriented stuff so nothing unique but I like electronic music :)

After thinking about this for a few days/week, I have come to the decision to focus my efforts this month on learning/building simulations and models. I participated in last year's TiMaSoMo under a different username and I thought it was fun to post progress and have some sort of implicit social contract driving progress forward. This year is a bit more technical learning and delving into an aspect of programming and mathematics/statistics that I am not confident in at all but I think I could see some potential wins in my career by learning some of these things.

In my current role, I pretty much have total access to all company HR data and my background is in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. I feel that with basic simulation/model and my subject matter expertise in the relationships between work and people, I should be able to slap something together that makes sense at a basic level. I'm directing my focus to our HR ticketing system, where all of our data resides in ServiceNow. Fortunately, there seems to be a dearth of information about building simulations in Python and there seems to be research done in building models/simulations for IT Service Desk Improvement (the most analogous environment that our HR ticketing system operates in).

A month is not a lot of time to really learn and understand a complicated subject. However, I'm hoping that getting started will set me up for success later on down the line, especially as I'm working on an executive HR dashboard for the next three months that will expose to my critical data points throughout the company.